Here’s your firmware update for March 29, 2025
This week Apple announced the date for WWDC 2025, Marvel teased its massive Avengers: Doomsday cast, and Nintendo held what’s set to be its last Switch direct before the Nintendo Switch 2 releases.
To catch up on all that and all our picks for the week’s 7 biggest tech stories scroll through this page so you’ll be ready for next week’s big announcements.
Once you’re done, read our picks for 7 new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend (March 28).7. Apple set a date for WWDC 2025
It’s been an interesting few weeks for Apple with several new products and an official delay to the AI-infused Siri, but this week, we got the office dates for the 2025 World Wide Developers Conference.
More commonly referred to as WWDC 25, Apple’s weeklong conference at which it normally debuts its next-generation platforms and software will kick off on June 9, 2025. As we’ve come to expect, Apple will host a ‘Special Event’ on day one, which will be the week’s main keynote.
It’s safe to expect Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, many other executives, and product leads to showcase all the new features and operating systems. We’re expecting iOS 19, iPadOS 19, the next version of macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and the software that powers AirPods and HomePod.
Read more: Apple just announced WWDC 2025 starts on June 96. Avengers assembled for Doomsday
After teasing a big announcement, Marvel has revealed the entire, 27-strong cast for Avengers: Doomsday, and it’s full of heroes including familiar MCU Avengers like Anthony Mackie as Captain America, Letitia Wright as Black Panther, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, and Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, as well as some soon to be heroes like the Fantastic Four’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing), Pedro Pascal (Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby (Invisible Woman) Joseph Quinn (Human Torch). Oh, and Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.
There were also a few surprises, like Tom Hiddleston returning as Loki, Lewis Pullman as Sentry, and Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor – the latter of whom were set up as antagonists the last time we saw them in the Thunderbolts* trailer and Wakanda Forever, respectively.
And then some big shocks like Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, Channing Tatum, Alan Cumming, and Rebecca Romijn – all of whom will reprise their roles as Mutants from the X-Men universe. Their inclusion and some lighting have led many to speculate the movie might adapt to the Avengers vs X-Men storyline.
There were plenty of absent Avengers – including these 17 we most want to see – but Marvel has said, “There’s always room for more,” in response to a post on RDJ’s Instagram suggesting the film might be even more packed than it already is.
